#formica

[vintagehomecollection]

Design consultant Michael Haskins devised this grid of shelving units for a bedroom. While the grid of shelves itself has been constructed of white Formica® Colorcore®, the backing on each unit is a different shade from the Colorcore® pastel palette. The gentle play with color softens the otherwise hard lines of the grid, which also permits the shelves to function both as areas for storage and as display units.

Wallworks: Creating Unique Environments with Surface Design and Decoration, 1988

[mushrooms-and-millipedes]

[americaisdead]

carpinteria, calif. april 2026

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[bloggonotes]

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[misforgotten2]

Formica got it's name because it was developed as an inexpensive replace insulators in high energy electrical equipment using the mineral mica. It was a replacement "for mica".

Sunset The Magazine of Western Living - April 1958

[futurebird]

too young to freak out

My nervous Formica subsericea colony. These are black field ants. When I turn on the light they panic. A newly emerged worker (called a callow) cowers as her sisters stampede over her. She is newly emerged and not strong enough to run and freak out.

(this is me at big parties TBH)

One of her sisters picks her up and she tucks her legs in like a pupae so she is easy to carry. In a few days she will be a lovely black like her older sisters.

[cnestus]

hey check out this handsome gynandromorph Formica ant i found